Books like 'Resist Fascism'
Readers who enjoyed Resist Fascism by Bart R. Leib, Kay T. Holt, Rivqa Rafael, R.K. Kalaw, Barbara Krasnoff, Marie Vibbert, J.L. George, Tiffany E. Wilson, M. Michelle Bardon, Izzy Wasserstein & Santiago Belluco also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Twister Trouble by Anne Schreiber, Joanna Cole
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe kids in Ms. Frizzle's class are getting ready for the Wild Weather Show. To prepare, they take a field trip to the Weatherama Amusement Park. The class finds out just how wild weather can be when they accidentally fly right into a powerful tornado... -
![The System of the World by Neal Stephenson]()
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn this concluding volume of Neal Stephenson's epic work, "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe must escape the noose of Jack Ketch; the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz comes to a head; and Daniel Waterhouse pursues his dream to build the Logic Mill... -
![Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten]()
Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when a woman loses her memory but gains a conscience?Dr. Alexandra Turing is a roboticist whose intellect is unrivaled in the field of artificial intelligence. While science has always come easy, Alexandra struggles to understand emotional cues and responses... -
![Lo que pasa es que te quiero: Poemas de amor y desamor by Gloria Fuertes]()
Lo que pasa es que te quiero: Poemas de amor y desamor by Gloria Fuertes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPara Gloria Fuertes el amor era algo involuntario, como la poesía o el hipo. Curiosa, melancólica y mordaz, durante toda su vida amó y escribió con un espíritu de libertad y ternura insólito en la España de su época. Le rompieron el corazón mil veces, y mil veces lo recompuso para seguir queriendo... -
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![Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer]()
Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability... -
![Nowhere Near You by Leah Thomas]()
Nowhere Near You by Leah Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFollowing up her acclaimed debut, Because You'll Never Meet Me, Leah Thomas continues the stories of Ollie and Moritz in another heart-warming story of unique friendship.Ollie and Moritz might never meet, but their friendship knows no bounds... -
![House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi]()
House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom visionary author C. T. Rwizi comes the epic journey of four people on a distant planet who face the ultimate test of loyalty, friendship, and duty in the rising tide of war.A corporate aristocracy descended from Africa rules a colony on a distant planet.Life here is easy—for the rarified and privileged few... -
![Geometry for Ocelots by Exurb1a]()
Geometry for Ocelots by Exurb1a
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIt is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity long ago transitioned to the era of holy technology. Now humans present as saintly animals, spending their days in meditation and drug-induced euphoria, far from the dark secrets their paradise is founded upon... -
![Viendra le temps du feu by Wendy Delorme]()
Viendra le temps du feu by Wendy Delorme
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Elles étaient toutes brisées et pourtant incassables. Elles existaient ensemble comme un tout solidaire, un orchestre puissant, les organes noués en ordre aléatoire, un grand corps frémissant. Et j'étais l'une d'entre elles." Une société totalitaire aux frontières closes, bordée par un fleuve... -
![Black Knight by Svetlana R. Ivanova]()
Black Knight by Svetlana R. Ivanova
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAntonina Black, or just Nina, is a wise-mouthed but wounded girl. She is sent to live with her aunt in America. After leaving her homeland Russia, Nina tries to adjust to a new life with her homophobic cousins and American high school. But her life begins to take a strange new turn when an enigmatic girl shows up. Allecra Knight is a gorgeous blonde mystery... -
![Radio by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade]()
Radio by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the traumatic events at the dreaded prison Red Bay, Ronja is hanging by a thread. Whispers trail her through the Belly, carrying rumors of her borderline supernatural voice. Plagued by nightmares and haunted by the memories of those she could not save, she clings to the promise that her gift will soon become the weapon of the Anthem... -
![Clan, Honor, and Empire by Tracy St. John]()
Clan, Honor, and Empire by Tracy St. John
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDramok Rajhir has never had to go without. He’s been blessed with the best schooling, a prestigious pedigree, a fine home, plus all the intimate companionship a young Kalquorian male could ask for. But with status comes responsibility. His father insists Rajhir assume his place in Kalquorian society as soon as possible... -
![Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995 by Margaret Atwood]()
Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995 by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn omnibus edition of Margaret Atwood's poetry 1965 - 1995 including the latest collection Morning in the Burned... -
![Declared by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes]()
Declared by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alien warrior, a kidnapped mate, and a traitor waiting to take everything from them both…Wesley: I’ve always loved space. Give me Star Trek over Lord of the Rings any day. Since I was a kid, all I’ve wanted is to explore the great beyond, to boldly go and all that jazz. And with my feet firmly stuck on Earth, the way I reach for the stars is through developing video games... -
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![The Vindication by C.J. Cherryh]()
The Vindication by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA compelling heroine…a future as detailed as that of Herbert's Dune…and finely orchestrated suspense right up to the end. Strongly recommended... -
![Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renée Thomas, W.E.B. Du Bois]()
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renée Thomas, W.E.B. Du Bois
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations of readers who have not had the chance to explore the scope and diversity among African-American writers.Fiction. Sister Lilith - Honoree Fanonne JeffersThe Comet - W.E.B. Du Bois Chicage 1927 - Jewelle GomezBlack No More (novel excerpt) - George S... -
![Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker]()
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present... -
![The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend]()
The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEx-lovers can really mess up your life. Kate Vincent's ex, Anna, certainly does. Not only does Anna interfere in Kate's love life, but she totally screws up the world by traveling back in time to 11th century Spain and changing one crucial event. As any sane person knows, you cannot alter an event in history without altering everything that follows—but Anna has an agenda, and a score to settle...Categorized as:
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![More Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling]()
More Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Twilight Zone means many things to the hugely imaginative and talented Rod Serling. It can mean a time-space "warp," a state of mind, a day somebody wishes never, never happened. But whatever twist Mr. Serling's fancy takes, his story is colored with a weird, dreamy quality that will change your pulse beat - and perhaps your feeling about life... -
![I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow]()
I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking the strange and the mundane collide. These are stories of strange experiences set in familiar places, and of familiar experiences set in strange places. Many of the pieces in I’m Fine take place close to home, in suburban neighborhoods, or rural communities. The settings are conventional, yet something unexpected, or even magical, is occurring... -
![Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel]()
Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist... -
![Reinventing Lindsey by Maggie Brown]()
Reinventing Lindsey by Maggie Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStudying the past hasn’t prepared Daisy Parker—anthropologist-turned-matchmaker—for her latest client. Finding Lindsey Jamieson-Ford a life partner isn’t exactly a simple exercise. Not only hasn’t Lindsey dated for years, the prickly reclusive scientist relates better with her robots than with people. Lindsey has no idea what matchmaking involves when she hires Daisy... -
![His Name was Death by Rafael Bernal, Kit Schluter]()
His Name was Death by Rafael Bernal, Kit Schluter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut... -
![Ninguém nasce herói by Eric Novello]()
Ninguém nasce herói by Eric Novello
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNum futuro em que o Brasil é liderado por um fundamentalista religioso, o Escolhido, o simples ato de distribuir livros na rua é visto como rebeldia... -
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![Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology by Ann VanderMeer, Eleanor Arnason]()
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology by Ann VanderMeer, Eleanor Arnason
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer... -
![Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson]()
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsKevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents... -
![State Tectonics by Malka Ann Older]()
State Tectonics by Malka Ann Older
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the best books of 2018, according to Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Review of Books, and BookRiot.Campbell Award finalist Malka Older's State Tectonics concludes The Centenal Cycle, the cyberpunk poltical thriller series that began with Infomocracy and is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series.The future of democracy must evolve or die... -
![Rubicon Beach by Steve Erickson]()
Rubicon Beach by Steve Erickson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA prisoner with a haunted past is released into ravaged Los Angeles, where he pursues an elusive girl to the shores or Rubicon Beach and faces his lost destiny. In his second novel, Steve Erickson creates a decaying world filled with leftover passions and poetic vision that established him as one of the most original and evocative American writers of his generation... -
![Oceanic by Greg Egan]()
Oceanic by Greg Egan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the electronic frontier to the wilder shores of hard physics, Greg Egan's new collection is powerful, shocking and... -
![In Dyer Need: The First Chapter by Claire Highton-Stevenson]()
In Dyer Need: The First Chapter by Claire Highton-Stevenson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe latest Romance from Claire Highton-Stevenson Ren Dyer is at the pinnacle of her career. Newly appointed as head of the protection team for Home Secretary Andrea Fielding, she is a woman focused only on her job. Andrea Fielding is a woman who is looking for love and finding it in all the wrong places... -
![Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany]()
Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArnold Hawley, a gay, African–American poet, has lived in NYC for most of his life. Dark Reflections traces Hawley's life in three sections — in reverse order. Part one: Hawley, at 50 years old, wins the an award for his sixth book of poems. Part two explores Hawley's unhappy marriage, while the final section recalls his college days... -
![Bug Week by Airini Beautrais]()
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger’s party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night... -
![Royal Family by Jenny Frame]()
Royal Family by Jenny Frame
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Veronica Clayton, the sudden death of her mother has turned her naturally bright and happy-go-lucky view of the world bleak. As the Police Protection Officer for the Queen's children, she has purpose, but for the next six months, the Queen's family is the focus of a documentary on royal life. The last thing Clay wants is a camera pointed in her face... -
![Mouth: Stories by Puloma Ghosh]()
Mouth: Stories by Puloma Ghosh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBESTIARY MEETS THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED IN THIS COLLECTION OF 11 EERIE, UNCANNY, AND SURREAL SHORT STORIESIn this debut collection, Puloma Ghosh uses the speculative as a catalyst to push her stories and characters beyond what reality allows. Exploring grief, intimacy, sexuality, and bodily autonomy, Mouth leans into the bizarre and absurd while reaching for the truth... -
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![Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel by Bob the Drag Queen]()
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel by Bob the Drag Queen
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“It’s a knockout.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) From RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, Traitors contestant, and host of HBO’s We’re Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop...Categorized as:
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![Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe]()
Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism... -
![The Shuddering City by Sharon Shinn]()
The Shuddering City by Sharon Shinn
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the city of Corcannon, everyone has a secret.Madeleine is planning her wedding to Tivol, but she’s really in love with Reese.Jayla has become the guardian of a child named Aussen, but she knows that Aussen possesses a mysterious and dangerous power.Brandon is a temple soldier keeping the enigmatic Villette a prisoner in her own home, but finds himself risking everything to keep her safe... -
![Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson]()
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Melancholy Elephants (1982)Half an Oaf (1976)High Infidelity (1984)Antinomy (1978)In the Olden Days (1984)Chronic Offender (1981)No Renewal (1977)Common Sense (1985)Rubber Soul (1982)Concordiat to "Rubber Soul" (1985) essayFather Paradox (1985)True Minds (1984)Satan's Children (1979)Not Fade Away... -
![The Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley]()
The Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this brilliant novel from the author of Sing the Light, a talented medicant defies the rule of men -- and changes the lives of every woman on the planet... -
![The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk]()
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsZachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing...Leadenhall Street, London, 1754.Raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father's workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen who help bring his father's creations to life...Categorized as:
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![Natural Selection by Malinda Lo]()
Natural Selection by Malinda Lo
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI was born on Earth, not Kurra. I'm not human,even though I try to be. My people, the Imria, think I'm a little unusual because of that. They call me an Earthsider: as if I've crossed a line, chosen a side. Gone native. Before she met her girlfriend Reese, before she knew the role she would play in the fate of two worlds, Amber was a fifteen-year-old Imrian torn between two identities... -
![Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders]()
Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary.The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future... -
![Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell]()
Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan. But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance... -
![Event Factory by Renee Gladman]()
Event Factory by Renee Gladman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA “linguist-traveler” arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her... -
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![The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod]()
The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History: A pastel-hued yet chilling alternate vision of England, The Summer Isles views the nightmare that the country has become since Germany’s victory in the Great War, through the eyes of a man whose life lies close to the heart of historyIn 1918 the Allies were defeated... -
![Perseids and Other Stories by Robert Charles Wilson]()
Perseids and Other Stories by Robert Charles Wilson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRobert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for the first time... -
![The Leaky Establishment by David Langford]()
The Leaky Establishment by David Langford
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside... -
![Brännmärkt by Lizette Edfeldt]()
Brännmärkt by Lizette Edfeldt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVänskap har aldrig varit så dödlig. Efter flera hundra år av översvämningar, orkaner, epidemier och krig tvingas återstoden av mänskligheten att hålla hårt i sina resurser för att inte gå under. Befolkningen är inordnad i ett hierarkiskt system, där bara den som fötts som Alfa kan göra sin röst hörd.En värld, fyra zoner, tio rang. Detta är Imperiet... -
![Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi]()
Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIncludes one short story and one long story by Mahasweta Devi:'The Hunt,' 'Douloti the Bountiful' and the novelette 'Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha;' with a long interview with the author and two texts by the translator... -
![The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin]()
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other “lucky” girls are sent to work at a posh underground nightclub reserved exclusively for Russia’s upper-crust elite. They are to be a sideshow attraction to the rest of the club’s entertainment, and are billed as the “famous singing caryatids.” Things only get weirder from there...
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